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I have been reading the second book of Greg Mortenson’s, “Stones into Schools”, and follows his life helping kids in the most remote reaches of Afghanistan and Pakistan by building schools and lifting the crushing poverty that has plagued this group of people living there. The more I read, the more inspiring his stories are and never in my life have I read the book so moving, to the point where I just made a donation of USD10 to the Central Asia Institute, the non-profit organisation that helps to finance and plan the construction of schools since its first formation by Mr Greg himself. His life story, his failures and successes are both enormous and greater than life.

One particular passage in his book struck me particularly hard personally, and after reading it, sealed my decision to actually make the transaction to donate some money to the CAI online. Read on to find out… continue reading »

Back then I was totally crazy about Slumdog Millionaire. That movie became the best movie I have ever watched in years. I totally did not expect it to be that good. The last time I watched a movie and felt good after watching it was “The Pianist“. That was the only movie that I could recall immediately. when I realized that the movie was actually adapted from a book “Q&A” written by Vikas Swarup, I immediately set forth to read the book. I was thrilled. The book was good. But now comes a new novel called “Six Suspects”. continue reading »